Online Poker Available in Pennsylvania on July 15

Poker lovers from Pennsylvania will be able to play poker using their PCs and mobile devices starting July 15 as it is the date on which online poker will become legal in this American state.

The Executive Director of Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, Kevin O’Toole, revealed the date on Wednesday, in a PGCB meeting. It took him five minutes to get to the topic and reveal the date to the news reporters who had been very happy to share the news with the residents of Pennsylvania.

O’Toole stated that online poker was the “key component” in the gaming plan of Pennsylvania. Furthermore, he added that the staff had reviewed everything and made an estimate that they would require approximately 90 days to prepare everything. Moreover, O’Toole said that he had advised the iGaming certificate holders and operators that there would be a coordinated period when they ought to go live which is on July 15, 2019.

Pennsylvania Online Gambling

The bill for online gaming was passed less than two years ago, and it was approved by the Governor of Pennsylvania in October 2017. From then on, the lawmakers of this state have been actively working to set everything up before this type of activity goes live.

Furthermore, casinos also had some time to arrange partnerships with various online operators in order to set everything up and wait for the launch date to be revealed. It is indeed true that many were skeptical about the whole online gaming thing as it took more time than it should, so people started losing hope.

At this moment nobody actually knows how online poker would look like in this state, but OnlinePokerReportfound out that among companies that obtained licenses were partypoker and PokerStars. In other words, the two online poker giants already suggest that the residents of Pennsylvania will have a great time playing online poker.

Pennsylvania has a huge potential for playing online poker. PlayNJ stated that New Jersey’s market has been creating approximately $1.8 million monthly. Given that Pennsylvania has four million residents more than NJ, it already has a firm ground for becoming a great online poker market. They could further improve if they become a part of the Multi-State Internet Gaming Association that allowed states of Nevada, NJ, and Delaware to combine player pools.

There is, however, one huge obstacle for everything to be launched properly, and that is the ongoing drama regarding the Wire Act that the legislators need to resolve so as to favor online poker. The Wire Act compliance’s grace period is set to be June 14, which means that everyone will now by then in what direction the online poker in Pennsylvania is going to go. Nevertheless, Pennsylvania has already had massive success when it comes to other forms of gambling which was expanded in this state, so this leaves overall optimism for online poker.